I had been following the mailing list for the Haiku project the past week with growing interest. The topic of discussion? Why, the alpha release, of course! What needs to be done, who needs to prepare what, and most importantly, what schedule are they going to settle on? Well, after numerous insightful back-and-forths, the community has settled on a schedule.

No hard feelings, but i find it a bit severe from you to make such assumption on the "quality of the code base" just because you stumbled across a few bugs on your hardware

Why do you assume I assumed? I have actually studied and hacked on the Haiku code (mostly interested because I had intimate knowledge of the NewOS code base.)

And overall, the code quality isn't impressive. That doesn't mean it can't improve. It just means it has to be a priority.

I have already touched the security issue. Another issue for me has been SMP support (not just last weeks build - I have tried a lot of builds over time), and I have a rough idea why. The locking isn't always done properly, and the code base mostly ignores read reorderings that will bite you increasingly on newer CPU's (that's right, Intel/AMD cpu's actually does reorderings these days - so does your compiler...)

As for bugs, here Ubuntu has issues with my ASUS laptop, but mostly due to highly broken ACPI table. And ZETA couldn't boot until I worked around what seemed to be a bug in the chipset. The fact an OS doesn't boot on some machines by no mean imply anything about its quality.

As for the rest, we do accept patches
At least the overall code quality of Haiku is quite higher than that of the original for what I've come to see.

Why do you assume I assumed? I have actually studied and hacked on the Haiku code (mostly interested because I had intimate knowledge of the NewOS code base.)

And overall, the code quality isn't impressive. That doesn't mean it can't improve. It just means it has to be a priority.

I have already touched the security issue. Another issue for me has been SMP support (not just last weeks build - I have tried a lot of builds over time), and I have a rough idea why. The locking isn't always done properly, ...

Based on your statements, I can only assume that you have no clue what you are talking about.

If you think code quality is poor, you have no idea what code quality actually is about.

If you have found bugs, please report them properly (none of your examples has been reported as a bug so far), or provide patches to fix them.